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##circling an area of approximately 120 square kilometres ( 46 sq mi ). recent research suggests that the earthworks served as a water collection system rather than a defensive purpose. in the 5th century the power of the city reached as far south as copan, whose founder k'inich yax k'uk'mo'was clearly connected with tikal. copan itself was not in an ethnically maya region and the founding of the copan dynasty probably involved the direct intervention of tikal. k'inich yax k'uk'mo'arrived in copan in december 426 and bone analysis of his remains shows